King named chairman of Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration; urges President Eisenhower to support integration
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January 11, 1957
While King is still in Montgomery, black leaders in Atlanta name him chairman of the Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration. King later returns to the conference where he and other leaders issue telegrams to President Dwight Eisenhower and other government officials, urging their support in ending southern segregation.